NAFTA

Analyze and respect the pros and cons of NAFTA and why some people are strongly for and why others are just as strongly against it. As in the debate over Health Care Reform, you may be surprised how much misinformation is out there regarding NAFTA.

Read the following:

http://www.cfr.org/trade/naftas-economic-impact/p15790

Chapter 9 in text book: “International Business, 9th Edition” Book info: eText: ISBN-10 0077437578, ISBN-13 9780077437572 Print: ISBN-10 0078029244, ISBN-13 9780078029240 Author(s): Hill, Charles W. L. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education Copyright year: © 2013 Pages: 752
View the video: NAFTA: Ross Perot and Al Gore Debate 1993, Part 2 of 8 on youtube
Consider NAFTA’S Economic Impact among its members.

In your opinion, has NAFTA been good or bad for the Canadian economy? For the Mexican economy? For the U.S. economy?
Do you agree or disagree with your peers, and if so why?
Also, while NAFTA was being debated, H. Ross Perot was running for President (as an Independent) on an anti-NAFTA ticket. He was promoting all sorts of doom and gloom about how NAFTA would kill the U.S. economy. Did his predications prove to be right or wrong?
As before, there’s a lot of good material in the textbook. However, you should supplement it with your own research via the Internet. When you argue your case with your peers, you should substantiate your thoughts by citing specific parts of the textbook and by making reference to business information from the web which you’ve found to be most informative.